Dr. Donna Bruns Stockrahm and Dr. Christopher Merkord, Biosciences Department, took 13 Bioscience research students (and members of the MSUM Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society) to the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020. The students presented 6 posters on their research: Morphometrics of female painted turtles (Chrysemys […]
Professor Chris Walla of the School of Art received a fully funded 2020 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant to fund an ongoing body of text based sculpture. The Artist Initiative grant program is designed to support and assist professional Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging artistic development, nurturing artistic creativity, and recognizing the contributions of individual […]
Dr. Sumali Pandey visited with the students and faculty in the Biology department at North Dakota State University, and presented a seminar on her research topic “Repeated inhalation of an environmental mold: innocuous or not?”
Dr. Chang-Seong Hong (Philosophy Department, MSUM) and Dr. Sun Kyeong Yu (Philosophy Department, MSU Mankato) co-authored a Korean-language book How Bioscience Meets Buddhism and have recently published it in Seoul Korea. Drs. Hong and Yu discussed and provided solutions for the philosophical issues of Aristotelian essentialist biology, Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and contemporary molecular biology in light of Buddhist concepts of […]
Instructional Designers Catherine Artac and Stephen Beckermann will present along with Karen Qualey, Director of Online Learning, to the Minnesota Learning Commons Coordinating Committee on February 6, 2020. Their presentation centers on how to develop a sense of belonging in online courses through strategies and practices that promote student engagement, cultural responsivity & inclusiveness, and communities of inquiry.